Cloudy Fans: Cosmic Illusion #18
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Salli McQuaid: Cloudy Fans, 32"x 35", 2007.
Media: textiles, threads. Techniques: applique, piecing, pantographing, free-form stitching, trapunto, embroidery.
Included in Portfolio 15, Cheryl Dineen Ferrin, ed., Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.: 2008, p. 156.
Artist's Statement
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When I ask people what is special about my textile art, they answer, “imagination,” “originality,” or “detail.” What I like about Cloudy Fans is its surrealistic, pensive and yet peaceful quality. |
To me, surrealism
is a metaphor for “cloudy fans,” and vice versa. I therefore
embarked from the traditional Japanese “Cloudy Fan” block, combining
it with water imagery, to convey the quilt’s theme. |
Quilt history: published in Portfolio 16: Studio Art Quilts Associates Inc., 2008.
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